Jennifer Clement

Jennifer Clement is an American-Mexican author who was elected as the first woman President of PEN International in 2015 since the organization was founded in 1921. She also served as President of PEN Mexico from 2009 to 2012. Clement’s books have been translated into 30 languages. Clement is the author of three novels: Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies (finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction) and The Poison That Fascinates. She also wrote the cult classic memoir Widow Basquiat (on the painter Jean Michel Basquiat and New York City in the early 80s). 2Early life Born in 1960 in Greenwich, Connecticut, Clement moved in 1961 with her family to Mexico City, where she later attended Edron Academy. She moved to the United States to finish high school at Cranbrook Kingswood School, before studying English Literature and Anthropology at New York University. She received her MFA from the University of Southern Maine. She is the co-director and founder, with her sister Barbara Sibley, of the San Miguel Poetry Week. She lives in Mexico City, Mexic